My poor little pooch is minging! He is a cocker spaniel (18 mths) and has suddenly developed a rather nasty niff. It doesn't linger all the time, but seems to come around in 'wafts'. It is a very pungent smell, and NOT very nice, his cuddles have gone down significantly!!!!
Anyone help?

If the smell is coming from the mouth check out my previous posts titled 'Maud's Mouth' and 'Should I just do as the Vet says?'  I discovered through some very helpful posts exactly what the name of the problem was and some very good alternative methods of getting rid of the problem and controlling it.  My cocker Maud developmed Lip Fold Excema (my Vet didn't even offer a name for it and she treated her twice) and several posters offered great ideas for treatment.

Pungent makes me think it is probably overfull anal sacs.  Take him to the vet and get them to show you how to empty them, the glove on finger in the bottom method is best if you are not squeamish.  Then have a look at his diet and check there is enough fibre in it good bulky but firm motion will help the sacs empty on their own.

Thanks to you both, have checked his mouth and all seems fine, to be fair the odour is not eminating from there really, and only cleared his anal glands a couple of weeks back. I am going to give him a bath this evening in some new medicated stuff my friend has and see how we go from there.
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Does the fur around his willy need trimming?  As male dogs get older, their pee does smell stronger, and Cockers can have a lot of fur in that area, which traps the wee as it comes out - and produces a very rank smell......

Hi,

I would agree, check out his willy as digger says ;)

But I would also have a look at his skin. The reason I say this is because I used to have a GSD who absolutely stank to high heaven ALL the time, after baths, being out in the fresh air, doggy sprays etc and it turned out to be a skin allergy, the hard bit was identifying what he was allergic to, it turned out just about everything So we had to bath him in coal tar and take other precautions, check with your vet.

A friends dog developed a nasty pong and it turned out he had got an infection in his sheath. He was very hairy as described by the two earlier posts.

check out his ears as cockers often have smelly ears caused by mites